There's no conspiracy to it. Just Apple's excuses for assholish behaviour. Forced obsolescence, DRM, anti-competitive actions, they and their fanbois will always make up semi-plausible excuses for what can more reasonably explained by profit motives.

There's no conspiracy to it. Just Apple's excuses for assholish behaviour. Forced obsolescence, DRM, anti-competitive actions, they and their fanbois will always make up semi-plausible excuses for what can more reasonably explained by profit motives.

I find the technical explanation to be more reasonable than just saying "anti-competitive" or "profit motive". That seems like a cop out to me.

I'm not arguing Apple is altruistic in every instance, certainly not. In this case though, it is definitely in line with the other app stores that impose reasonable restrictions on developers.

That's about the sum of it, nobody really cares. There are plenty of good browser on iOS and users of iOS have a rich web browsing experience with the opportunity to try different browsers. If Firefox don't want to join the party that's up to them, the vast majority of iOS user would find it hard to think of a single tangible advantage that adding Firefox to the browser mix on iOS would bring. Can anybody tell me what unique and specific benefits Firefox would bring to browsing on iOS that none of the other browsers already delivers?

I like the over all model of curated software management on iOS. I have never turned my iPad 2 off since I got it and it has only ever required a reboot for OS updates (Android users can Google 'OS Update' to find out what that means) and I have never once had to worry about malware. What's not to like? What real tangible benefits can the non-curated software model bring me as an end user, what functions do Android users have that iOS user don't? And I, along with about 99% of the buying public, don't consider the ability to tinker with the inner workings of my device a benefit. Tinkering with the inner workings of devices is a pain, I don''t tinker with the inner working of my TV or fridge so why do it with a phone or tablet.